Ebook: Advances in Multimedia Information Processing – PCM 2007: 8th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, Hong Kong, China, December 11-14, 2007. Proceedings

The Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM) was held in Hong Kong, at the City University of Hong Kong, during December 11–14, 2007. Started in 2000, PCM has been held in various places around the Pacific Rim, including Sydney, Beijing, Hsinchu, Singapore, Tokyo, Jeju, and Zhejiang in chronological order. PCM is a major annual international conference organized as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied multimedia analysis and processing. PCM 2007 was organized into 5 different tracks with a total of 247 submissions from 26 countries and regions including Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, the UK and the USA. Among the five tracks, “multimedia analysis and retrieval” received the most number of submissions (34% of the submissions). After a rigorous review process, 73 papers were accepted for oral presentations, giving an acceptance rate of under 29% for PCM 2007. In addition, 21 papers were accepted for poster presentations. We would like to thank all the Track Chairs and the reviewers for their timely handling of the paper reviews. We are particularly grateful to Chong-Wah Ngo and his team for their support of the Web-based review system throughout the process. We are also indebted to the Special Sessions Chairs, Qi Tian and Timothy Shih, for the organization of the two special sessions on “The AVS China National Standard” and “Multimedia Information System for Biomedical Research,” respectively.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2007, held in Hong Kong, China, in December 2007.

The 73 revised full papers and 21 revised poster presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 247 submissions. The papers are organized in topical session on image classification and retrieval, the AVS china national standard - technology, applications and products, human face and action recognition, H.264 video coding, video analysis and retrieval, media security and DRM, audio, speech and sound processing, digital watermarking, multimedia information systems for biomedical research, media delivery, video communication and systems, video compression and processing, face and 3D model analysis, multimedia applications, image indexing, identification and processing, as well as multimedia processing.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2007, held in Hong Kong, China, in December 2007.

The 73 revised full papers and 21 revised poster presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 247 submissions. The papers are organized in topical session on image classification and retrieval, the AVS china national standard - technology, applications and products, human face and action recognition, H.264 video coding, video analysis and retrieval, media security and DRM, audio, speech and sound processing, digital watermarking, multimedia information systems for biomedical research, media delivery, video communication and systems, video compression and processing, face and 3D model analysis, multimedia applications, image indexing, identification and processing, as well as multimedia processing.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
FADA: An Efficient Dimension Reduction Scheme for Image Classification....Pages 1-9
Using Camera Settings Templates (“Scene Modes”) for Image Scene Classification of Photographs Taken on Manual/Expert Settings....Pages 10-17
Modeling User Feedback Using a Hierarchical Graphical Model for Interactive Image Retrieval....Pages 18-29
Graph Cuts in Content-Based Image Classification and Retrieval with Relevance Feedback....Pages 30-39
A Novel Active Learning Approach for SVM Based Web Image Retrieval....Pages 40-49
An End-to-End Application System of AVS: AVS-IPTV in China....Pages 50-57
An AVS Based IPTV System Network Trial....Pages 58-64
Usage of MPEG-2 to AVS Transcoder in IPTV System....Pages 65-70
The Audio and Video Synchronization Method Used in AVS System....Pages 71-77
Expression-Invariant Face Recognition with Accurate Optical Flow....Pages 78-87
Real-Time Facial Feature Point Extraction....Pages 88-97
Local Dual Closed Loop Model Based Bayesian Face Tracking....Pages 98-107
View-Independent Human Action Recognition by Action Hypersphere in Nonlinear Subspace....Pages 108-117
Efficient Adaptive Background Subtraction Based on Multi-resolution Background Modelling and Updating....Pages 118-127
Towards a Stringent Bit-Rate Conformance for Frame-Layer Rate Control in H.264/AVC....Pages 128-137
A Quantized Transform-Domain Motion Estimation Technique for H.264 Secondary SP-Frames....Pages 138-147
Efficient Intra Mode Decision Via Statistical Learning....Pages 148-157
Fast Mode Decision Algorithms for Inter/Intra Prediction in H.264 Video Coding....Pages 158-167
A Novel Fast Motion Estimation Algorithm Based on SSIM for H.264 Video Coding....Pages 168-176
Shot Boundary Detection for H.264/AVC Bitstreams with Frames Containing Multiple Types of Slices....Pages 177-186
A Lexicon-Guided LSI Method for Semantic News Video Retrieval....Pages 187-195
3D Tracking of a Soccer Ball Using Two Synchronized Cameras....Pages 196-205
Object Tracking Based on Parzen Particle Filter Using Multiple Cues....Pages 206-215
Random Convolution Ensembles....Pages 216-225
A Hybrid Content-Based Image Authentication Scheme....Pages 226-235
Implementing DRM over Peer-to-Peer Networks with Broadcast Encryption....Pages 236-245
A New Video Encryption Scheme for H.264/AVC....Pages 246-255
Tattoo-ID: Automatic Tattoo Image Retrieval for Suspect and Victim Identification....Pages 256-265
Auto-Annotation of Paintings Using Social Annotations, Domain Ontology and Transductive Inference....Pages 266-275
Value Combination Technique for Image Authentication....Pages 276-285
A Novel Multiple Description Approach to Predictive Video Coding....Pages 286-295
Video Multicast over Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Using Distributed Optimization....Pages 296-305
Acoustic Features for Estimation of Perceptional Similarity....Pages 306-314
Modeling Uncertain Speech Sequences Using Type-2 Fuzzy Hidden Markov Models....Pages 315-324
A New Adaptation Method for Speaker-Model Creation in High-Level Speaker Verification....Pages 325-335
Dynamic Sound Rendering Based on Ray-Caching....Pages 336-346
Spread-Spectrum Watermark by Synthesizing Texture....Pages 347-356
Design of Secure Watermarking Scheme for Watermarking Protocol....Pages 357-366
Digital Watermarking Based on Stochastic Resonance Signal Processor....Pages 367-376
A DWT Blind Image Watermarking Strategy with Secret Sharing....Pages 377-384
Using Enhanced Shape Distributions to Compare CAD Models....Pages 385-388
Wavelet-Based Salient Region Extraction....Pages 389-392
Color-Based Text Extraction for the Image....Pages 393-396
Text Segmentation in Complex Background Based on Color and Scale Information of Character Strokes....Pages 397-400
Design of a Decentralized Video-on-Demand System with Cooperative Clients in Multicast Environment....Pages 401-404
Low Computing Loop Filter Using Coded Block Pattern and Quantization Index for H .264 Video Coding Standard....Pages 405-408
A Low Complexity Block-Based Video De-interlacing Algorithm for SIMD Processors....Pages 409-412
Fast Normalized Cross Correlation Based on Adaptive Multilevel Winner Update....Pages 413-416
Hierarchical Intra-mode Restriction Technique in H.264/MPEG4-AVC Video....Pages 417-420
A Fast Global Motion Estimation Method for Panoramic Video Coding....Pages 421-424
Bisynchronous Approach for Robust Audio Watermarking Technology....Pages 425-428
Design and Implementation of Steganographic Speech Telephone....Pages 429-432
A Low Complexity Recovery Temporal Synchronization Signals Based on Local Variance Statistics....Pages 433-436
An Efficient Video Watermarking Scheme with Luminance Differential DC Coefficient Modification....Pages 437-440
Real-Time Secure Multimedia Communication System Based on Chaos Theory....Pages 441-445
A Remediable Image Authentication Scheme Based on Feature Extraction and Clustered VQ....Pages 446-449
Segmentation of Human Body Parts in Video Frames Based on Intrinsic Distance....Pages 450-453
A Distributed Remote Rendering Method Based on Awareness Model....Pages 454-457
Signer Adaptation Based on Etyma for Large Vocabulary Chinese Sign Language Recognition....Pages 458-461
The Photo News Flusher: A Photo-News Clustering Browser....Pages 462-466
Multimedia-Learning in a Life Science Workflow Environment....Pages 467-474
Visualization of High-Dimensional Biomedical Image Data....Pages 475-482
Moving Object Segmentation Using the Flux Tensor for Biological Video Microscopy....Pages 483-493
Fusion of Multimedia Information in Biomedicine....Pages 494-500
Channel-Aware Adaptive Multi-RPS Scheme for Video Error Resilient Transmission over Wireless OFDM Channel....Pages 501-509
An Improved Marking Mechanism for Real-Time Video over DiffServ Networks....Pages 510-519
Priority Ordering and Packetization for Scalable Video Multicast with Network Coding....Pages 520-529
Error Concealment for INTRA-Frame Losses over Packet Loss Channels....Pages 530-538
Information Delivery Systems for Car Passengers Without Networking Capabilities....Pages 539-548
Predictable Processing of Multimedia Content, Using MPEG-21 Digital Item Processing....Pages 549-558
A Novel Pipeline Design for H.264 CABAC Decoding....Pages 559-568
Efficient Segment Based Streaming Media Transcoding Proxy for Various Types of Mobile Devices....Pages 569-578
Distributed Streaming for Video on Demand....Pages 579-589
Context Aware Body Area Networks for Telemedicine....Pages 590-599
M-LTW: A Fast and Efficient Non-embedded Intra Video Codec....Pages 600-608
Intra Frame Encoding Using Programmable Graphics Hardware....Pages 609-618
Error Concealment Techniques for Multi-view Video Sequences....Pages 619-627
Consistent-Quality Distributed Video Coding Framework....Pages 628-637
Laplacian Distortion Model (LDM) for Rate Control in Video Coding....Pages 638-646
Acquiring Critical Light Points for Illumination Subspaces of Face Images by Affinity Propagation Clustering....Pages 647-654
Random Subspace Two-Dimensional PCA for Face Recognition....Pages 655-664
Robust Speaking Face Identification for Video Analysis....Pages 665-674
Incremental AAM Using Synthesized Illumination Images....Pages 675-684
Content-Based 3D Model Retrieval Based on the Spatial Geometric Descriptor....Pages 685-694
A Practical Server-Side Transmission Control Method for Multi-channel DTV Streaming System....Pages 695-703
Using Irradiance Environment Map on GPU for Real-Time Composition....Pages 704-713
Ranking Using Multi-features in Blog Search....Pages 714-723
Design and Analysis of a Watermarking System for Care Labels....Pages 724-733
Stroke Correspondence Based on Graph Matching for Detecting Stroke Production Errors in Chinese Character Handwriting....Pages 734-743
Multi-modal Multi-label Semantic Indexing of Images Based on Hybrid Ensemble Learning....Pages 744-754
Content Based Image Hashing Via Wavelet and Radon Transform....Pages 755-764
Effective Corner Matching for Transformed Image Identification....Pages 765-774
Automatic Panel Extraction of Color Comic Images....Pages 775-784
Image Quality Assessment Based on Energy of Structural Distortion....Pages 785-793
SAR Speckle Mitigation by Fusing Statistical Information from Spatial and Wavelet Domains....Pages 794-803
Encoding Independent Sources in Spatially Squeezed Surround Audio Coding....Pages 804-813
Efficient Storage and Progressive Rendering of Multi-resolution Mesh....Pages 814-821
An Improved Three-Step Hierarchical Motion Estimation Algorithm and Its Cost-Effective VLSI Architecture....Pages 822-830
Back Matter....Pages -

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2007, held in Hong Kong, China, in December 2007.

The 73 revised full papers and 21 revised poster presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 247 submissions. The papers are organized in topical session on image classification and retrieval, the AVS china national standard - technology, applications and products, human face and action recognition, H.264 video coding, video analysis and retrieval, media security and DRM, audio, speech and sound processing, digital watermarking, multimedia information systems for biomedical research, media delivery, video communication and systems, video compression and processing, face and 3D model analysis, multimedia applications, image indexing, identification and processing, as well as multimedia processing.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
FADA: An Efficient Dimension Reduction Scheme for Image Classification....Pages 1-9
Using Camera Settings Templates (“Scene Modes”) for Image Scene Classification of Photographs Taken on Manual/Expert Settings....Pages 10-17
Modeling User Feedback Using a Hierarchical Graphical Model for Interactive Image Retrieval....Pages 18-29
Graph Cuts in Content-Based Image Classification and Retrieval with Relevance Feedback....Pages 30-39
A Novel Active Learning Approach for SVM Based Web Image Retrieval....Pages 40-49
An End-to-End Application System of AVS: AVS-IPTV in China....Pages 50-57
An AVS Based IPTV System Network Trial....Pages 58-64
Usage of MPEG-2 to AVS Transcoder in IPTV System....Pages 65-70
The Audio and Video Synchronization Method Used in AVS System....Pages 71-77
Expression-Invariant Face Recognition with Accurate Optical Flow....Pages 78-87
Real-Time Facial Feature Point Extraction....Pages 88-97
Local Dual Closed Loop Model Based Bayesian Face Tracking....Pages 98-107
View-Independent Human Action Recognition by Action Hypersphere in Nonlinear Subspace....Pages 108-117
Efficient Adaptive Background Subtraction Based on Multi-resolution Background Modelling and Updating....Pages 118-127
Towards a Stringent Bit-Rate Conformance for Frame-Layer Rate Control in H.264/AVC....Pages 128-137
A Quantized Transform-Domain Motion Estimation Technique for H.264 Secondary SP-Frames....Pages 138-147
Efficient Intra Mode Decision Via Statistical Learning....Pages 148-157
Fast Mode Decision Algorithms for Inter/Intra Prediction in H.264 Video Coding....Pages 158-167
A Novel Fast Motion Estimation Algorithm Based on SSIM for H.264 Video Coding....Pages 168-176
Shot Boundary Detection for H.264/AVC Bitstreams with Frames Containing Multiple Types of Slices....Pages 177-186
A Lexicon-Guided LSI Method for Semantic News Video Retrieval....Pages 187-195
3D Tracking of a Soccer Ball Using Two Synchronized Cameras....Pages 196-205
Object Tracking Based on Parzen Particle Filter Using Multiple Cues....Pages 206-215
Random Convolution Ensembles....Pages 216-225
A Hybrid Content-Based Image Authentication Scheme....Pages 226-235
Implementing DRM over Peer-to-Peer Networks with Broadcast Encryption....Pages 236-245
A New Video Encryption Scheme for H.264/AVC....Pages 246-255
Tattoo-ID: Automatic Tattoo Image Retrieval for Suspect and Victim Identification....Pages 256-265
Auto-Annotation of Paintings Using Social Annotations, Domain Ontology and Transductive Inference....Pages 266-275
Value Combination Technique for Image Authentication....Pages 276-285
A Novel Multiple Description Approach to Predictive Video Coding....Pages 286-295
Video Multicast over Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Using Distributed Optimization....Pages 296-305
Acoustic Features for Estimation of Perceptional Similarity....Pages 306-314
Modeling Uncertain Speech Sequences Using Type-2 Fuzzy Hidden Markov Models....Pages 315-324
A New Adaptation Method for Speaker-Model Creation in High-Level Speaker Verification....Pages 325-335
Dynamic Sound Rendering Based on Ray-Caching....Pages 336-346
Spread-Spectrum Watermark by Synthesizing Texture....Pages 347-356
Design of Secure Watermarking Scheme for Watermarking Protocol....Pages 357-366
Digital Watermarking Based on Stochastic Resonance Signal Processor....Pages 367-376
A DWT Blind Image Watermarking Strategy with Secret Sharing....Pages 377-384
Using Enhanced Shape Distributions to Compare CAD Models....Pages 385-388
Wavelet-Based Salient Region Extraction....Pages 389-392
Color-Based Text Extraction for the Image....Pages 393-396
Text Segmentation in Complex Background Based on Color and Scale Information of Character Strokes....Pages 397-400
Design of a Decentralized Video-on-Demand System with Cooperative Clients in Multicast Environment....Pages 401-404
Low Computing Loop Filter Using Coded Block Pattern and Quantization Index for H .264 Video Coding Standard....Pages 405-408
A Low Complexity Block-Based Video De-interlacing Algorithm for SIMD Processors....Pages 409-412
Fast Normalized Cross Correlation Based on Adaptive Multilevel Winner Update....Pages 413-416
Hierarchical Intra-mode Restriction Technique in H.264/MPEG4-AVC Video....Pages 417-420
A Fast Global Motion Estimation Method for Panoramic Video Coding....Pages 421-424
Bisynchronous Approach for Robust Audio Watermarking Technology....Pages 425-428
Design and Implementation of Steganographic Speech Telephone....Pages 429-432
A Low Complexity Recovery Temporal Synchronization Signals Based on Local Variance Statistics....Pages 433-436
An Efficient Video Watermarking Scheme with Luminance Differential DC Coefficient Modification....Pages 437-440
Real-Time Secure Multimedia Communication System Based on Chaos Theory....Pages 441-445
A Remediable Image Authentication Scheme Based on Feature Extraction and Clustered VQ....Pages 446-449
Segmentation of Human Body Parts in Video Frames Based on Intrinsic Distance....Pages 450-453
A Distributed Remote Rendering Method Based on Awareness Model....Pages 454-457
Signer Adaptation Based on Etyma for Large Vocabulary Chinese Sign Language Recognition....Pages 458-461
The Photo News Flusher: A Photo-News Clustering Browser....Pages 462-466
Multimedia-Learning in a Life Science Workflow Environment....Pages 467-474
Visualization of High-Dimensional Biomedical Image Data....Pages 475-482
Moving Object Segmentation Using the Flux Tensor for Biological Video Microscopy....Pages 483-493
Fusion of Multimedia Information in Biomedicine....Pages 494-500
Channel-Aware Adaptive Multi-RPS Scheme for Video Error Resilient Transmission over Wireless OFDM Channel....Pages 501-509
An Improved Marking Mechanism for Real-Time Video over DiffServ Networks....Pages 510-519
Priority Ordering and Packetization for Scalable Video Multicast with Network Coding....Pages 520-529
Error Concealment for INTRA-Frame Losses over Packet Loss Channels....Pages 530-538
Information Delivery Systems for Car Passengers Without Networking Capabilities....Pages 539-548
Predictable Processing of Multimedia Content, Using MPEG-21 Digital Item Processing....Pages 549-558
A Novel Pipeline Design for H.264 CABAC Decoding....Pages 559-568
Efficient Segment Based Streaming Media Transcoding Proxy for Various Types of Mobile Devices....Pages 569-578
Distributed Streaming for Video on Demand....Pages 579-589
Context Aware Body Area Networks for Telemedicine....Pages 590-599
M-LTW: A Fast and Efficient Non-embedded Intra Video Codec....Pages 600-608
Intra Frame Encoding Using Programmable Graphics Hardware....Pages 609-618
Error Concealment Techniques for Multi-view Video Sequences....Pages 619-627
Consistent-Quality Distributed Video Coding Framework....Pages 628-637
Laplacian Distortion Model (LDM) for Rate Control in Video Coding....Pages 638-646
Acquiring Critical Light Points for Illumination Subspaces of Face Images by Affinity Propagation Clustering....Pages 647-654
Random Subspace Two-Dimensional PCA for Face Recognition....Pages 655-664
Robust Speaking Face Identification for Video Analysis....Pages 665-674
Incremental AAM Using Synthesized Illumination Images....Pages 675-684
Content-Based 3D Model Retrieval Based on the Spatial Geometric Descriptor....Pages 685-694
A Practical Server-Side Transmission Control Method for Multi-channel DTV Streaming System....Pages 695-703
Using Irradiance Environment Map on GPU for Real-Time Composition....Pages 704-713
Ranking Using Multi-features in Blog Search....Pages 714-723
Design and Analysis of a Watermarking System for Care Labels....Pages 724-733
Stroke Correspondence Based on Graph Matching for Detecting Stroke Production Errors in Chinese Character Handwriting....Pages 734-743
Multi-modal Multi-label Semantic Indexing of Images Based on Hybrid Ensemble Learning....Pages 744-754
Content Based Image Hashing Via Wavelet and Radon Transform....Pages 755-764
Effective Corner Matching for Transformed Image Identification....Pages 765-774
Automatic Panel Extraction of Color Comic Images....Pages 775-784
Image Quality Assessment Based on Energy of Structural Distortion....Pages 785-793
SAR Speckle Mitigation by Fusing Statistical Information from Spatial and Wavelet Domains....Pages 794-803
Encoding Independent Sources in Spatially Squeezed Surround Audio Coding....Pages 804-813
Efficient Storage and Progressive Rendering of Multi-resolution Mesh....Pages 814-821
An Improved Three-Step Hierarchical Motion Estimation Algorithm and Its Cost-Effective VLSI Architecture....Pages 822-830
Back Matter....Pages -
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